업체명 : EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

For several years, now, women have been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and important.

Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted terrible penalties on those expressing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a variety of these cases. During these, we've heard scary details of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

We've become aware of females bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from altering spaces to domestic violence sanctuaries.

Equally inevitably, those women capable of resisting have actually been winning legal actions.

But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are costly and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and .

For each female who has thrived in court, there are numerous more for whom releasing a legal case appeared impossible.

The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal defense of their rights immediately gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.

Author JK Rowling has established a fund to support ladies's legal protection of their rights

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments throughout the nation.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have actually released declarations revealing their decisions to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This extensive and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are basic. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individual identity.

The law is the law and no further consideration is required in order for employers to fulfill their responsibilities under it.

A number of previous legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and contributed to - such charity events.

Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, all set to back the cases of every woman wronged at work for speaking the truth about sex.

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battlefield when it pertains to ladies victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human cost indicates nothing to the insurance companies financing companies' costs. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the best attorneys in business will, I think, motivate numerous to advise settlement instead of the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required proof that ladies's rights require the fiercest defense, it can be found in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With tasty pathos, one activist legal representative declared online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is fate motion".

Ms Rowling has never ever been in the shadows when it comes to her views on ladies's rights, has she?

Other reactions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender critical" women had been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some politicians to deal with a concern they preferred to avoid.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, revealed their assistance for Ms Peggie and stated their belief in the importance of biological sex.

If they 'd known what they understand now, they included, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to allow anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court might have required an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - remain committed to using single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans woman to run for a women-only position on its national executive council.

But every act of performative defiance by well-funded trade unions - or taxpayer-funded local authorities and health boards - is another pricey legal action in the making.

It ought to not have been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal costs of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor ought to the author have felt it required to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling's decisions to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of females victimized for thinking in the reality of sex are acts of feminist philanthropy which, in a world not made batty by gender ideology, would have been hailed by our politicians.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright weird that, when he broaches the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never points out the assistance Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of ladies?

Money is not the only thing females acting to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the emotional assistance of buddies and allies is necessary.

This comfort will not remain in brief supply for those women who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author is part of a worldwide network of advocates, combating to protect females's rights against the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.

Let the country's personnels departments brace themselves. A most remarkable plot twist has simply been written.